Tag Archives: web site optimization
Waterfall vs. Optimization
Tom Fishburne nails it again: As he says in the accompanying post, the “waterfall” approach is a terrible fit for web project management: We couldn’t predict all of the potential issues when we first wrote a brief. So, requirements would inevitably change and we’d uncover issues too late to do anything about them. We would [...]
The Algorithm is Not the Goal
Every day there are new adventures in the SEO quest to understand Google’s algorithm. Yesterday, Andy Beal reported on an interview Eric Enge conducted with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, and the big news was that 301 redirects (if you don’t know what they are, just think of when you enter a web [...]
Speaking at BarCamp Nashville – Are You Going?
If you’re in Nashville on Saturday, October 17th, the place to be is downtown at Cadillac Ranch where the third BarCamp Nashville will be happening, and I mean really happening. This is where the best minds in technology, web, digital content, social media, and more will be. And if you do go, you can see [...]
How Do You Sell More Hats?
Let’s say you run an online store selling, I don’t know, let’s call it hats. And let’s say that your site gets 100 visitors each and every day. Out of those 100, let’s say 2 of them buy a hat. (For what it’s worth, 2% is a pretty average conversion rate for an un-optimized e-commerce [...]